LANSDALE >> A Lower Salford man arrested last month for allegedly robbing an ex-friend at gunpoint outside a Towamencin apartment complex waived his preliminary hearing Thursday morning after prosecutors dropped the two most serious charges filed against him.

Police led a handcuffed Isaiah Todd Robinson, 21, of the 100 block of Main Street, into District Judge Harold Borek’s Lansdale court, where he met with his public defender briefly before deciding to accept a waiver offer put forth by prosecutors.

As part of the deal, two first-degree felony charges — robbery and aggravated assault — were withdrawn, and Robinson waived misdemeanor charges of simple assault, terroristic threats, theft and receiving stolen property for trial in county court. Additionally, Robinson had his bail lowered from $50,000 cash to $10,000 unsecured, and he was uncuffed and allowed to leave court on his own accord after spending about three weeks incarcerated at Montgomery County Correctional Facility in connection with the alleged July 30 incident.

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He’s due to appear in county court on Oct. 8 to be formally arraigned on the four remaining criminal counts.

Police had said previously that just before 6:30 p.m. on July 30, officers responded to a reported armed robbery at Main Street Apartments, located on the 1100 block of West Main Street.

The alleged victim told officers that he was sitting outside when a silver Dodge Stratus drove into the parking lot — the man said he didn’t recognize the driver or the passenger in the front seat, but that he recognized Robinson, who was sitting in the back seat, because they were “former friends,” police said.

Robinson reportedly got out of the car, engaged the man in a brief conversation, and then reached into a red duffel bag in the back seat of the Dodge and pulled out a handgun, police said they were told.

The man stated that Robinson then pointed the gun at him and said, “Give me all your (expletive)!” at which point he dropped his iPhone in fear and retreated inside the apartment building, where he reported the incident to another person who then dialed 911, according to police.

Robinson and the two other men fled the scene in the Stratus, but were located in Lower Salford a short time later by Lower Salford police, and Robinson was taken into custody.

After Thursday’s waiver, Towamencin police Sgt. Gary Wacker explained that the two felony charges were dropped because “the ensuing investigation determined that there wasn’t enough evidence to support the prosecution of (robbery and aggravated assault) charges.”

Wacker said that no firearm was ever recovered in connection with the incident, but that information received during the course of the investigation indicated that the weapon was not a real handgun but a BB gun, and that it was never actually pointed at the victim.

“(Robinson) took the guy’s phone, but it was not a flat-out robbery,” Wacker said.